Myanmar sets provisional date for key 2015 polls
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YANGON (AFP) - Landmark elections in Myanmar have been provisionally scheduled for late next year, electoral officials said Tuesday.
The 2015 general election is due to be held in the final week of October or the first week of November, Union Election Commission chairman Tin Aye said at a meeting with political parties in Yangon.
He said the election "needs to be free and fair" so that "smart and good people" would be installed in parliament, adding that the exact date would be confirmed next August.
Myanmar authorities have promised the vote will be the freest in the country's modern history after the military ceded direct power to a quasi-civilian government three years ago.
